御早う！

わたし は まいあさ おきます (Thank God for that one..lol)。 しょして、うた を うたう。 わたし は この うた を うたう :

ビデオcourtesy of me! (This is actually my first AMV now that I think about it) kind of choppy..but oh well you get the point

 
Lyrics: (I don't know if they're right or not)

Yeah good morning 

Hitori okidasu umou no shita mata 

atarashii seikatsu ni hariototsu mada 

usuguraku tomoru gaitou ga 

sewashinakute choushin kizamu guideline 

Taikutsu wa ikutsuka no fact itsuka mita kenshiki kako

o furikaeru actor and actress I wouldn't miss it for the world 

Get up get up 

walking sleeping 

keep on moving 

slowly good morning and good sunshine

Shinya kara asa kusunda kyoukaisen 

mata chigau kotae sagasu kotai chikyuu no ue 

aruku shuuki wa ano hakusen no mukou ni aru taiyou 

Tannaimon hannaimon wa naino? 

tte mayotte sagashite itsu no manika asondeta 

hadashide sosh!tara mata yoru ga me ga me 

o samashite Asa kara ban hello! 

Mattaku motte no hoka no yami tokasuka 

kasukani watasu kara hazumi chakuchi tsuki no

Jasmine oyasumi 

Get up get up walking 

Sleeping keep on moving 

Get up get up walking 

Sleeping keep on moving

ばらのはな は あかい です。すみれのはな は あおい です。

わたし は 日本語の詩 を かきます。Hopefully someday I will be able to. Right now, English is the only Language I can write in. But Japanese poetry is so cool. Of course most notable Japanese poems are Haikus, but still, they're pretty good.

This poem is by Kobayashi Issa, apparently it's his death poem:



A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.

Note the not-haiku-ness of it. I'm pretty sure it sounds better in Japanese.

The Power of あにめ!!!

はじめまして みなさん!!!

わたしは Rachealです。じゅうきゅうさいです。Columbia だいがくのがくせいです。にねんせいです。わたしのblogspotのなまえはRaedesuです。(Because I like the way it sounds). わたしはいちねんせいのにほんごのがくせいです。I decided to join the class because I have been trying to learn Japanese on my own for over five years with little to no success. I have wanted to learn にほんご ever since I was introduced to the wonderful world of anime back in the 9th grade. Anime is Japanese cartoons, which means they are in Japanese. Now don't get me wrong, watching them with subtitles is swell from time to time, but ever now and again I would like to pay attention to the action instead of reading. So that's my story.

どうぞよろしくおねがいします!!!

(Rei1: ああああ...そですか？
Rei2: はい、すきです!)